Security Orchestration, Automation and Response Engineer

SUMMARY:
The main purpose of this position is to research, develop and mature the cybersecurity response capability of the Company Group through effective implementation and integration of the Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform.

POSITION INFO:

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Define own work plan and deliverables with guidance from the Senior Team Lead: Security Operations Centre (SOC) and prioritise delivery of own outputs against the agreed work plan.
• Develop and automate response procedures to clarify and contextualise security events from an information technology (IT) business perspective.
• Research and keep abreast of new and changing SOAR architectures and other automation technologies and liaise with vendors for purposes of product and technology review as well as coordinating vendor presentations, where relevant.
• Improve current technologies and expand tools set through additional coding mechanisms (e.g. Python, R and PowerShell).
• Identify appropriate systems and perform systems’ integration for the purpose of enrichment of security events.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology  or an equivalent qualification (NQF 7); and
• Eight years’ job-related experience in SOAR and/or Security Incident and Event Management, of which three years must be in Resilient.

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